Hopkins vs Stinky Winky revisited

Yea Wright turn down 5 million dollars to face Taylor again and instead move up to lightheavyweight catchweight for 2 million to fight Hopkins.

 

wow **** trade off

 

I never really payed too much attention to Winky untill recently, I watched Wink/Mosley 1&2 back to back, Vargas, Trinidad and Taylor and I instantly became a fan.One of the most underrated boxers alive.:good

 

the tito fight was his high water mark he beat mosley twice then tito who he absolutely dominated

he was never quite as good after that fight

 

I fell asleep during this fight. I woke up and wasnt even mad I missed it.

 

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He's criminally under appreciated. Definitely a H2H nightmare style wise for just about anyone in history at 154 and made a good account of himself at 160.

Wink's a good man.

 

Yeah this, now my memory comes back. Horrible decision. For both fighters really. Shame how Winky's fight ended, litterally being used as a stepping stone for Paul Williams, while he was twice the better fighter then Williams ever was.

His dismantling of Tito Trinidad was really, really a masterpiece. Add to that the 2 wins over Shane and reigning the 154 pound division for almost 10 years, he should be hall of hame.

Oh yeah and i thought he should ve gotten the decision against Vargas ( who was a great fighter in his early days). And he claims to be robbed against Simon and Vasquez, but i never saw these fights.

 

I might have to watch this again...I just couldn't bring myself to do it before because it was just a sorry excuse for a fight.

The extra weight hurt Winky but the it seemed to rejuvenate the old man.

Even with that it was a very close fight...Winky seemed to do the more consistent work. Nard had the body language of a man in control, he was always the better ring general...but it was hard to split rounds.
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Maybe it was because I wasn't particularly enthralled...but I have never drunk the "Nard won wide" kool aid.

 

Winky is a G. End of.

 

It was as bad as Jones-Hopkins II. horrible fight. Credit to Winky for dealing with that nasty cut as well as he did though.

 

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Hopkins won, but I remember thinking before the fight, if there was ever a fight to put BIG money on it turning out a draw, this would of been the one.

One thing I really enjoyed, the HBO Countdown show for this one was really entertaining. Damn I miss those.

 

Let's give Hopkins some credit here. Winky was a top 3-4 P4P fighter at the time and riding high and was the slight favorite. Winky came to fight but Hopkins was a class above. Winky threw nothing but arm punches. Hopkins landed the hard, flush shots. Winky did look bloated but Hopkins clearly won this fight. Hopkins pretty much derailed Winky's career.

 

@ 160 Id say Wink takes it...Bhop won but it was a horrible performance.

 

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